Tag Archives: Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

February 1, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Traditional IT Shops Starting to Evangelize Cloud, and End to the FUD In Sight?

By Ben Kepes

I was interested to read some coverage of the recent event that was run by Amazon Web Services in Sydney, Australia to celebrate the launch of two Sydney availability zones for the company. As an aside its interesting to look at the list of services that AWS has chosen to

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April 3, 2012 Posted in Business 7 Comments

Citrix Scores a Coup–CloudStack to Become Cloud Platform of the Apache Foundation

By Ben Kepes

[Addendum - I knew about this announcement a week ago. Out of respect for those who briefed me on it under embargo I have decided to hold to the embargo despite others decisions not to do so. Personally I feel that breaking embargos is bad form at best, unethical at

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Ben Kepes is a technology evangelist, an investor, a commentator and a business adviser. Ben covers the convergence of technology, mobile, ubiquity and agility, all enabled by the Cloud. His areas of interest extend to enterprise software, software integration, financial/accounting software, platforms and infrastructure as well as articulating technology simply for everyday users.